Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis...
...Family Tree. Family was everything to Beckwith. He never wearied of noting that a great-grandfather, Judge Hunter Holmes Southworth, owned vast spreads of rich Delta cotton land in pre-Civil War days. The judge's daughter, Mrs. Susie Southworth Yerger, moved in the highest social circles of the Confederacy, was a close friend of Jefferson Davis' wife Varina...
...Family Treehouse, which will lead kiddies through 150,000 handmade leaves and blossoms to the Robinsons' abode 80 feet above the jungle-delightfully furnished with flotsam, jetsam (down to the last doily), plus a fabulous view. And the Oakland, (Calif.) Children's Fairyland has built a Chinese Tree Teahouse offering tea and cookies aloft. Halfway up, an open-mouthed dragon invites the small fry to slide down his throat. "Kids will go nuts when they see it," says a prideful spokesman...
...Program Director Douglas Carter, 33: "This type of student will dig into things for himself." Some noted guest lecturers will spur the digging. Last week Laura Fermi, widow of Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, began lecturing on science for ten days. She will be followed by Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Playwright Paul Green and Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges. A symphony orchestra, string ensemble, ballet and drama groups are already deep into rehearsals. The sheer responsiveness of the students inspires the 27-man faculty recruited from high schools and colleges in nine states. One college instructor found...
...other summers, the tree-shaded grounds of Salem College, in Winston-Salem, N.C., have been hushed in the eerie stillness that haunts deserted campuses. But this year the campus is bubbling like a chemical retort with a heady new experiment. Four hundred of North Carolina's most brilliant and creative high school students (fall-term juniors and seniors-to-be) have been brought together for an intensive eight-week study program, thanks to the state's fervently education-minded Governor Terry Sanford. Guiding principle behind this summer school is the Governor's belief that education precedes economic...